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Creating a Data-Driven Culture: Leadership Matters

Eight steps to prepare a school district for accessing and integrating data to make informed, proactive decisions

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Today's educational leaders face an environment that requires real-time decisions and accurate, reliable and timely data in their oversight of schools. Rather than guessing or hoping for the best, leaders can use data effectively to develop and foster a culture in which all members of the district understand, apply and manage data as a dynamic entity to support the district's focus and improve outcomes for students, staffs and schools. This paper describes eight essential steps for this important transformation of a school district's culture.

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SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.